A combination of happiness and motivation October 27, 2005
Posted by clayton in : workout , add a comment The usual day at school, played soccer during PE and I was sooo careful not to get myself kicked…It worked, I wasn't kicked at all but on the other hand, I wasn't really in the game either. Who cares? I don't feel like getting injured 
I got off school really early for some reason and I got home before 4pm. The bad part…It was raining…It's time to take a nap!!! Forget about the rain and relax, I'll need to save some energy for the swim anyway. I did put some oil on the back brakes of my MTB but couldn't test it because it was raining pretty hard outside. No 20km ride to the swimming pool today, instead, a nice swim.
The swim: It went really well and I felt some speed. I think I'm able to swim much smoother than last week. I usually feel myself moving forward, stop, move forward, stop…None of that today. The best part of today's swim, my coach and two triathletes said, "You're getting faster, aren't you?" or something like that. Well, I do go to the pool 4times a week…It'll be crazy if I'm not getting any faster…But still, someone else noticing/ telling me that I'm getting faster is really good motivation. Now, I wanna get faster;-) and I will. Swam about 1000m, focused on form…"catching" the water, not pushing my arms back but pulling my body forward. Today's swim made me think a bit, 'Swimming IS fun' when's the last time I thought that? I've always been thinking of getting faster, ofcourse, but getting away from that thought and swimming slow while having fun for awhile really changes a day, a week, maybe a month. In my opinion, it's not all about doing my best to get faster but it's more like doing my best and having fun while I'm at it. I guess that's what I learned from today's swim, a valuable one hour:-D
Tomorrow: I'll fix/ clean my road bike and if I have time, I'll do the same with my MTB…priorities…I'll study before cleaning the MTB. If I have some more extra time, a run will come in. I really wanna go for a hill climb, just don't know why…I'm just weird.